I need advice on a cover

[Jb10588]

I'm super new to photoshop. This is my first cover Ive ever made. I need some advice on what i can do to make it better. I noticed that it needs to be resized on the front and back, so i will work on that. Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to making great cover to share with you fine folks!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/c6joe21ufjgs4j6/Sea_Trader_Rise_of_Taipan.jpeg

[Vest Lord]

Hey dude,
I'm kinda new to this stuff my self but not new to photoshop, you did a pretty good job lining most of the stuff up. Since you're new to photoshop I'm not sure how much you want to push yourself but you could mess with the colors on this like in a normal photograph. right now it looks alittle faded but you can fix that in alot of the color adjustment settings. Theres a alittle imperfection in the top right corner, which you could fix by maybe copying a small piece from that area then pasting it and blending it in. You could also try redoing the logo again but that would require tracing it using the pen tool and layering different parts of it. Not the easiest stuff if you're just getting started but not hard either. I'm not a professional at photoshop or anything but I've dabbled enough to pick up some tricks.  Photoshop isn't THE BEST for designing things so redoing the logo and stuff in photoshop might not be the ideal situation but i'm sure it'll come out fine! Best of luck with the design, hope you post again when you're done!

[amace04]

The thing that immediately sticks out to me is the front cover is crooked.  On the back side, there's a few rows of pixels along the top that need to go.

I would probably recommend re-making the back from scratch.  Match the colour gradient as best you can, then re-type all the words so they're crystal-clear, Generate a new barcode.  Many logos are available in vector form, which will look alot more crisp.

Note, I haven't downloaded the cover to actually look, just my thoughts from the preview-sized one.  The front appears at first glance to be pretty crisp, and otherwise good except for being crooked.